Xanga is an online journal (otherwise known as a Blog) where people of ALL ages and ALL races, etc, can document their feelings, emotions, and life. It is like writing in a conventional diary or journal, only via the internet. While there are many stereotypes associated with Xangans (the popular, most used term for Xanga users) none of them are accurate.

- background of Xanga -
:::TAKEN FROM PC MAGAZINE:::

>>>>Xanga originated back in 1999 as a site for sharing book and music reviews. Driven by member preferences, it quickly morphed into a full-scale blog site, but it retains a marvelous ability to share reviews. Just name the song, movie, or book that interests you and Xanga grabs a link to Amazon.com, including a thumbnail of the cover. Xanga aggregates the links into a Top 50 list. Click the xTools button in the Links toolbar to comment on the site you're visiting, or post to your blog via e-mail. The attractive, fully WYSIWYG editor permits easy insertion of smileys, symbols, and links, and it automates the process of uploading and including images. You can try a free Xanga site, then upgrade to get more features and no ads.

It's easy to locate like-minded people among Xanga's 2.5 million users by checking out its blog rings. Members with similar interests can subscribe to one another's blogs (when someone subscribes or unsubscribes, you're notified). Xanga also gives the ability to subscribe without notification, a way to try a blog without risking offending the blogger by unsubscribing. Visitors can comment on your posts or give "eProps" to especially good ones.<<<<

1. A weblog community
2. A journal for people to
a.)Bitch about their life
b.)Post literature (poetry, etc.)
c.)Brag about their rich social life (usually made up events to seem ungodly popular)
d.)Chronicle their day
e.)Just to have one- because all their friends are doing it!
f.)To piss people off

2a. "I can't take it anymore, I cut myself again today, life sucks so much,I want to die"
2c. So like Jenny called and wanted to know if I could come over,and Matt called, and Brian asked me to go to the mall with him. So I went to the mall and met up with some more of my friends and some guys sstarted hitting on me thety were like so hot,too!
2d.I woke up, brushed my teeth, took a shower, went on the computer...
f.)Heyy guyz sup yall im just chillin leave propz MwAhZzZ omg TaNya 2dai wuz soOoO much fun lOlz--LuV yA LoTzZ xOxOJaNiE

The "trendiest" xanga -- an online journal must have the following information:

1) A list of every little thing that you did, including trips to the bathroom, shower, and anything personal that you should want the world to know.

2) If you went out, you must list every single person that you went out with. It's only a superb entry if you can list everyone. INCLUDING people you saw, people you met, people you wanted to meet and people you wanted to see.

3) In your status bar, you must "shoutout" to ALL the people you know.
OR
- Write a mushy lovey dovey poem, saying i miss you, i love you, i want you, why cant i have you, i cant live without you, i am so desperate for some ass, you know..that kinda stuff..

4)
a) To add some 'flavor' to the site, you must talk in incomprehensible ghetto slang that only you and your homies would understand. oh yea. almost forgot, you have to ToGgLe YoUr LeTtErS LiKe tHiS, oThErWiSe YoUr XaNgA eNtRy WiLl n0t Be CoMpLeTe!!
OR
b) You may choose to write babyish, cute, sweet, you know write in words that makes reading take longer than it should.

5) At the end of each entry you must force your xanga friends to 'drop you some epills' or 'holla baqq!' (whatever that means).

6) At the entrance and exit of your xanga page you MUST have consistant pop ups reminding people to eprop you, miss you, threatning to kill people if they dont eprop you, curse out those who tries to right click.

7) Remember to curse a lot, but ONLY show your status!! no need to make sense either.

8) Yes, and self adulation is everything. you must first write about how your ass is so fine, and convince others that it's true by posting pretentious pictures of yourself showing your 'fine ass' (i've seen some pretty bugly pictures on xanga). While flattering yourself, your self esteem is then boosted, allowing you to continue being an egomaniac.

9) Try to make each xanga entry as concise as possible. Shorten your entry to one word if necessary, then force all your friends and random people to eprop you, making yourself look important.

10) End each sentence with lol. LoL a lot.

1) First i woke up then I went to take a piss, wiped, zipped and then I took a shower for 2 hours, then I dried myself, then i wanted to eat but wanted to lose weight so I...then I called Bob then I like kinda watched tv at 2:37pm, nothing was on....so..blah blah blah..

2)Today I chillaxed with Mary a., mary b., mary c., and not to forget anna a., anna b. and anna, john a, william, anne, jenny c., jenny d., jenny r. Then I bumped into Jerry L. and saw him with Lisa M. and Lisa M. told me that she saw Suzie P, an hour ago and I was SO happy!

3)<marquee> i love you i love you butt, im so desperate for ass </marquee>

But don't be like the junior high retards and pronounce it "EXANGA". Them, along with many dumbasses who use Xanga actually are stupid enough that they pronounce the "X" in Xanga to make it sound like "EXANGA". The "X" in "Xanga" is pronounce as a "Z". Pronounced "Zanga". Although middle school retards who are obsessed with Xanga can't even wrap their minds around the pronunciation even though they were taught how to pronounce "X" as a "Z" in the beginning of words in elementary school.

An online diary used to either write about ones pointless day or to write brief insparations or random thoughts in ones head.
Some use it to write merely for themselves (if their site is not given out, they do not post on anyone else's site, and they have no other connections to their site, it would be pretty hard to find).
Others use it to communicate with friends, and only their friends.
And then there are some who search and search for other people's sites and read every aspect of their poor pathetic lives because they have stalker tendencies.

Ok, so my day was like this, I have no life so I sat on the couch with my daritos all day and watched soap opras because if you look beyond the poor acting and overdramitized women, they're actually pretty damn funny...
I swear she's a dog trapped in a cat's body...
This is much better then that old torn notebook and Mik wont beable to find this one...
Hey you ass, why weren't you in English today, the transvestite whore was gone and we had the coolest sub...
ooh, bobby from flordia, oh and his favortite sport is baseball, mine too, he has a girlfriend, i'm gonna kill that wench for stealling my man...

An online journal or diary like Weblog, My-diary, Livejournal, etc., etc.. People post as they would in an actual journal or diary.

I write stupid stereotypes on urbandictionary about people who have xanga; except I know all this because I...
A) Actually have one and actively maintain the page on a daily basis.
B) Have no life of my own and scan other peoples depressing pages so that I don't feel like my life sucks worse
C) Am just pissed because I tried to steal someone else's HTML and couldn't quite figure out how to insert it into my own code and the page quit working.